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A limerick is a five-line poem that consists of beats.
The fourth line of a standard five-line limerick rhymes with the third line.
The city in Ireland with a name that is the same as a 5-line poem is Limerick. A limerick is a form of humorous poetry that consists of five lines with a specific rhyming pattern.
A limerick
A Limerick is a five line poem written with one couplet and one triplet
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A free verse poem has no specific rhyme scheme or meter, allowing for more freedom in the structure and form of the poem. In contrast, a limerick is a specific type of poem with a distinct rhyme scheme (AABBA) and meter, often humorous and consisting of five lines.
A cinquain but a five line humorous poem is called a limerick.
limerick
A limerick is a five-line poem written with one couplet and one triplet. If a couplet is a two-line rhymed poem, then a triplet would be a three-line rhymed poem. The rhyme pattern is a a b b a with lines 1, 2 and 5 containing 3 beats and rhyming, and lines 3 and 4 having two beats and rhyming. Some people say that the limerick was invented by soldiers returning from France to the Irish town of Limerick in the 1700's. Limericks are meant to be funny. They often contain hyperbole, onomatopoeia, idioms, puns, and other figurative devices. The last line of a good limerick contains the PUNCH LINE or "heart of the joke." As you work with limericks, remember to have pun, I mean FUN! Say the following limericks out loud and clap to the rhythm.
An ode is a long poem. A limerick is always 5 lines with a particular rhyming scheme (AABBA).
5 lines in a limerick (type of poem...)